2 Dive aborted: Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner aborted his planned death-defying, 23-mile free fall because of the weather, postponing his quest to become the world's first supersonic skydiver until at least Thursday. As he sat Tuesday in the pressurized capsule waiting for a 55-story, ultra-thin helium balloon to fill and carry him into the stratosphere, a 25 mph gust rushed across a field near the airport in Roswell, N.M. The wind spun the still-inflating balloon as if it was a giant plastic grocery bag.

3 Sex charges: A fitness instructor in Maine pleaded not guilty Tuesday to running a prostitution business out of her Zumba studio. Alexis Wright, 29, is charged with more than 100 counts connected to her alleged operation in Kennebunk. Police said they found video footage of Wright having sex with men who were unaware they were being filmed, and records suggesting the sex acts could have generated $150,000.

4 Hazing plea: The first of a dozen defendants charged in the hazing death of a Florida A&M drum major entered a plea of no contest Tuesday to third-degree felony hazing. A judge didn't impose a conviction on 23-year-old Brian Jones of Parrish, Fla., who switched his plea from not guilty. Jones refused to comment after the hearing in an Orlando courtroom. In agreeing to the deal, Circuit Judge Marc Lubet said Jones' role in the hazing death of Robert Champion was relatively minimal.

5 Small change: A man tried to rob a Pennsylvania bank of $1 because he hoped to be sent to a federal prison nearby, police said. Jeffrey McMullen, a 50-year-old regular customer of an AmeriServ bank in Northern Cambria, handed notes to two tellers last week demanding a dollar and the tellers thought it was a joke, police said. He then told a new accounts employee he was robbing the bank for a buck.

6 Beluga battle: A proposal to import 18 beluga whales for popular interactive park attractions in the United States is drawing fierce opposition from animal rights advocates and others who object to their removal from the wild. The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta has applied for a federal import permit on behalf of a group of marine parks, saying the aquariums need the Arctic whales for captive breeding efforts, research and education. Approval would end an import hiatus of nearly two decades that is rooted in misgivings about removing social marine mammals from native waters and family groups.